At lunch in Pompeii with Michael Baigent. I am holding a glass of limoncello made by the woman who owns the restaurant.

With Jessica Coleridge at a party. We have stars in our eyes...!

With my best friend from our university days, John Coggeshall

With John Michell, looking at something serious in our flat. John might be rolling a joint, on the other hand, he might not...

My close friend David Eberts, whom Olivia and I have known since he was a child

With Jane Baigent at Pompeii

With our friends Hayley Mills and Firdous Bamji in Harlem.

With the man in Harlem who was selling a copy of my book The Sirius Mystery on his stall.

We had our picture taken together by his friend after I had signed my book for him.

Olivia and me with our friend Hayley Mills

With Joseph Needham in Cambridge at the Needham Institute when he was 93

With Joseph Needham

With my old friend and distant cousin Austin Pendleton, actor and theatre director. He lives in New York.

Me and Professor Serge Moscovici

Me and Olivia with Sir James Goldsmith and a Referendum party candidate

Our god-daughter Niralie Karia (on right) with her sister Niranjili, and Joe Fletcher, with Easter lamb cake made by his mother Candace Bahouth.

My friend Professor Serge Moscovici in Paris

My old school friend Jimmy Stickrod & his wife in Kentucky

Our close friends Cecil and Elizabeth Collins

Karel Reisz with Vanessa Redgrave. I knew Karel very well when I was younger. He was a marvellously kind and generous man.

Michael Baseleon and Jill Kraft, in the play Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling. Jill was my very close friend when I was young, like an older sister.

John Hurt signing our visitors book in Somerset

Graham and Ann Arnold at their front door in Shropshire. Both artists are members of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. Graham keeps bees.

I have always felt very protective towards our godson, Laurie Priester-Reading. He is the son of Anna-Clare Hillier, whom we have known since she was 18. Now Laurie is grown up himself, and time marches on. Photo by Olivia.  

John and Quentin Crisp at a supper party we gave in Fulham, just after John had made THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT  

Our dear friend Professor Richard Gregory scrutinizing Jonathan Stedall through Olivia's grand-father's naval telescope.

Olivia and Mark Booth, my editor at CENTURY, at the pyramids in Giza.